Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module U117. This topic is presented on public courses
Learning to program in Lua,
Lua Programming,
Lua Programming
Articles and tips on this subject | updated |
1844 | Calling functions in C from your Lua script - a first HowTo This short article shows you how to call a function that's written in C from a program written in Lua, how to write the function that's called, and how to turn it into an appropriate library and load that library. It then goes on (as a second example) to show you how to pass variables from the Lua script ... | 2010-06-23 |
1845 | Passing a table from Lua into C In a previous article, I showed you a simple example of how you can call a function that's written in C from Lua, and a second example that extended that - passing simple parameters in to the C function, and returning results.
But it's often more complex that that - for example, you may with to pass ... | 2010-06-19 |
2461 | Luac - getting lua to start fast by precompiling Luac is Lua's Compiler ... using "luac" you can turn your Lua program into a binary (executable) file. Covered on Installing Lua on our Lua Programming and Learning to program in Lua courses.
usage: luac [options] [filenames].
Available options are:
- process stdin
-l list
-o name ... | 2009-10-20 |
Examples from our training material
candy.c | C code callable from Lua - Mk 3 |
fromlua.c | C code callable from Lua - Mk 1 |
getos | What is my host operating system (in Lua) |
luapassing.c | C code - callable from lua with parameters passed |
passing.lua | Lua code that calls a C function, passing params and returning value |
top.lua | Lua program that loads and runs C code |
wrapper.lua | Lua script to load and run C functions - Mk 3 |
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Topics covered in this module
Environment.
Optimisation.
Using Lua and C together.
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